There was a period when we were getting lots of information about the unannounced Final Fantasy IX Remake but in recent months information has dried up completely. It seems that the reason for this is that development has completely stalled on the classic JRPG remake which was apparently being developed as a single game, rather than like Final Fantasy VII Remake which was split into three meaty parts. The new information comes from Alex Donaldson from RPGSite and according to him the project was very far along internally and then development ceased for whatever reason. The project could be revisited by Square Enix in the future, but at the moment development has been paused.
Rumour: Final Fantasy IX Remake was planned as a single game, but development has now stalled
Not the game I thought Square would get confused over, but I’m maybe not surprised. Perhaps the remake was looking a hell of a lot like the original game and so they shut it down. I know most people would be in for a very straightforward remake of FF9. Or maybe they took out the turn based mechanics and finally realized that was a stupid direction to go in. Either way management probably tripped up just making the simple choice.
I literally just got this for the original PlayStation yesterday. I honestly don’t think this needs a remake at all. I could understand 7 being remade since the original is a bit hard to go back to. But 9 has aged almost perfectly. I am glad this has stalled, just rerelease 13, 15, and 16 on switch 2 so that every mainline final fantasy game is playable on the switch.
Honestly I agree, I’m pretty suprised they would have gone with IX considering how it aged, when VIII makes much more sense to do after VII, especially with it being pretty rough to go back to still lol. X | X-2 aged great too.
I need XIII trilogy and XV and XVI on Switch 2 so baaaaadduuhh